Driving from Eastern Iowa to Central Illinois | Visiting Lincoln Home National Historic Site | Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site | Springfield, IL | May 2024 After a refreshing week in Iowa, it was time to kick off this summer’s travels. Curtis has a few work assignments scattered throughout the summer which will dictate where…
Hiking in Effigy Mounds National Monument | Pikes Peak State Park | May 2024 After a peaceful night in Minnesota, it was time to return to our home state once again. And we could think of no better way to enter than by taking highway 26, following the Mississippi River, which we think is one…
Day 3 in Marquette, MI | Hiking to Miners Falls and Miners Castle | Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore | Munising, MI | May 2024 On our third day in Marquette, we decided to go for a short road trip over to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Since we were bringing the dogs, we were a bit…
Driving from Pennsylvania to Michigan | Schuylkill River Trail | Mt. Pisgah County Park, PA | Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS | Fort Erie, ON | Driving Across Southern Ontario | April 2024 After almost 3 weeks in Pennsylvania and almost 3 months of non-stop work, the outage season was over and we were free to…
Hiking to Frying Pan Lookout Tower | Blue Ridge Parkway | Pisgah National Forest | January 2024 Last year when we were staying in Asheville, we had wanted to hike Mount Pisgah, but because the Blue Ridge Parkway was closed miles before that trailhead, we ended up settling for another peak, Ferrin Knob. We hoped…
Visiting Charleston, SC | Angel Oak | Downtown Charleston | Charles Pinckney NHS | January 2024 It’s so hard to believe that it’s been 8 years since we lived in Charleston. I can accept that we’ve been married for over 10 years and are now in our 30’s, but when I think about memories I…